A review by bookwyrmknits
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

mysterious fast-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this one more than I had expected to based on the opening. (I think part of that was getting used to Doctor Sheppard as narrator, and meeting a new cast of side characters.) As it turns out, though, I liked it probably as much as another other Poirot story I've read so far. There were a lot of distractions and misdirections, and many of the supporting characters grew on me over the course of the story. I feel like I should have seen the denouement coming, but I must confess that it took me by surprise.

One side note: there is the usual minor racism that I have come to expect in books of this era, but for some reason the Mahjong scene really rubbed me the wrong way.
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